Updated on February 3rd, 2015
On Monday February 2, 2015, The Houston & Brown family says, “Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life and is surrounded by immediate family. As her father Bobby Brown already stated, we are asking you to honor our request for privacy during this difficult time.”
Sources connected with the family shares that doctors performed tests Monday morning and determined the swelling on her brain has gone down. In addition, she has been able to “move her eyes” … all important signs.
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Sources learned that the oxygen levels in her brain have increased significantly — 4 times better than Sunday when she went in.
But the family has been told because Bobbi Kristina was deprived of oxygen for anywhere between 2 to 5 minutes while she was submerged in a tub, doctors fear neurological damage.
Brain swelling can also be called brain edema, elevated intracranial pressure, and cerebral edema.
Swelling can occur in specific locations or throughout the brain. It depends on the cause. Wherever it occurs, brain swelling increases pressure inside the skull. That’s known as intracranial pressure, or ICP. This pressure can prevent blood from flowing to your brain, which deprives it of the oxygen it needs to function. Swelling can also block other fluids from leaving your brain, making the swelling even worse. Damage or death of brain cells may result.
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI): A TBI is also called a head injury, brain injury, or acquired brain injury. In TBI, a sudden event damages the brain. Both the physical contact itself and the quick acceleration and deceleration of the head can cause the injury. The most common causes of TBI include falls, vehicle crashes, being hit with or crashing into an object, and assaults. The initial injury can cause brain tissue to swell. In addition, broken pieces of bone can rupture blood vessels in any part of the head. The body’s response to the injury may also increase swelling. Too much swelling may prevent fluids from leaving the brain.
- Ischemic strokes: Ischemic stroke is the most common type of stroke and is caused by a blood clot or blockage in or near the brain. The brain is unable to receive the blood — and oxygen — it needs to function. As a result, brain cells start to die. As the brain responds, swelling can occur.
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Updated on February 1st, 2015
Bobbi Kristina Brown has been placed into a medically induced coma after she was found unconscious in a bathtub.
Whitney Houston’s daughter was rushed to a hospital near Roswell, Georgia, yesterday after her husband Nick Gordon found her face down in the tub, People.com reports. According to TMZ.com, the doctor placed her in the coma due to swelling of the brain.
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TMZ also reports that her father Bobby Brown arrived at the medical facility last night with Tyler Perry right behind him, and they have been at Bobbi’s bedside ever since. Tyler had been traveling from Los Angeles to Atlanta when he heard about Bobbi and he immediately offered to fly Bobby out with him.
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There is still no word on what caused Bobbi to pass out yesterday, but People reports that she is in stable condition in ICU, where she has been placed on a ventilator.
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“She’s pretty good right now, she’s around family,” Bobbi’s cousin, Jerod Brown, told Sky News. “We’re just praying for a speedy recovery, that’s it.”
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Originally published on January 31st, 2015
Bobbi Kristina, Whitney Houston’s daughter and only child was found unresponsive in a bathtub by her husband Nicki Gordon and a friend in Atlanta this morning. This is especially shocking news, because Whitney Houston’s dead body was discovered in bathtub.
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Gordon attempted CPR until police arrived on the scene to take over. Bobbi Kristina was been rushed to the hospital and is now stabilized and breathing.
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No word on this was an accident or suicide attempt, but we will give more details as information about Bobbi Kristina is released.
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